Buy a copy of this week’s Hastings, St Leonards and Rye Observer newspaper - for our special storm supplement

The weekend storms - a whole family of them judging by the names they are now given - wrought some of the worst devastation we have seen in Hastings and Rye for many years.

Even today, there are some parts of Sussex without power.

Water supplies were also under threat for some parts of the area.

Today's front page of the Hastings, St Leonards and Rye Observer SUS-220224-143345001placeholder image
Today's front page of the Hastings, St Leonards and Rye Observer SUS-220224-143345001

Trees were brought down, coastal areas faced flood alerts, and travel by road and rail was widely disrupted.

You can read a full round-up of the week the storms hits Sussex in our very special pull out and keep supplement in this week’s newspaper.

Of course, it also contains all your local news, entertainment and lifestyle information.

So buy a copy today.

And don’t forget you can get continuous news updates on our sparkling new website SussexWorld sussexworld.co.uk and our Twitter and Facebook pages.

SussexWorld not only contains all your county-wide information it is just as local as before. Follow the tabs at the top of the pages to take you to all the news from Hastings and Rye.

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